Published by Set Margins’ publications and Fulcrum Arts
Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific is a relational atlas that considers a multiplicity of readings that use vibration and energetic materials as a primary way of knowing.
As the most dynamic tectonic plate on the face of the planet, the Pacific has been a hotbed of activity caused by volcanic, seismic, nuclear, and other vibrant forces. It is these events and their resulting vibrations that have helped artists, scientists, and cultural historians cultivate a wide ranging but interdependent approach to knowledge creation and sensory practices. This edition sets out a series of texts and artistic methodologies that speak to the variable social, political, geological, scientific, and cultural ways in which vibration is used to understand this region and to shape its very nature.
Now available through setmargins.press and local bookstores at 35 euro / 35 US dollar.
Edited and introduced by Lawrence English and Robert Takahashi Novak, including text by Akanksha Tiwary, Rana X. Adhikari, Lawrence English, Marcus Herse, Vanessa Kwan, W. Patrick McCray, Robert Takahashi Novak, Patrick J. Reed, Enrique Rivera, Fiona Shen.
Contributing artists: Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Channing Hansen, Virginia Katz, Len Lye, Minoru Sato, Rachel Shearer, Kyle Slabb, Akio Suzuki, Malena Szlam, Alba Triana, Mo H. Zareei, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Ross Manning, Steve Roden, Annea Lockwood & Bob Bielecki.
Curatorial / editorial team: Lawrence English, Robert Takahashi Novak, Marcus Herse, Patrick J. Reed. Graphic design by Willem Henri Lucas.
Released by Set Margins’ publications, Energy Fields: Vibrations of The Pacific is a publication co-presented by Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University It presents a diverse and dynamic collection of works from artists working out of Japan, Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, and the USA. These works explore vibration as a means of deepening understandings of sense, perception, and expanding ways of knowing. The exhibition considers how vibrations, and their resultant waves, influence our planet and ourselves.
Distributed in North America via Artbook/ D.A.P., in UK via Public Knowledge, in Australia via Perimeter, and elsewhere via Idea Books.
